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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Cute, and safe for the middle school crowd ( ) I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I might, reading about the donut camp set up before the opening of the Crispy Dream shop. The drama between teenagers and between members of an Evangelical church was handled without demonizing one side or the other. Add a born again biker pack and some teenaged love and sleuthing and clean writing, and the result was a nice little book. Emma is the daughter of two evangelical ministers, but there is trouble at their church. It seems that some of the parishioners don't want Emma's mom is preach anymore. Now Emma is fighting with her best friend and fighting her true feelings for her best guy friend all while trying to win a scholarship. I understood her fight to get to choose her own way, a way that might not agree with her family's expectations. I felt sorry for Emma because she genuinely wants to help her family in their difficult time and her parents just push her away. They don't understand how this big fight over her mom's right to preach can effect her which is so blind sighted I can't even believe it. I thought the whole doughnut camp thing was so funny and I enjoyed how Emma used that experience to learn new things about herself. I didn't like how the flashbacks were handled. The writing seemed awkward and heavy handed at those points. But I enjoyed the characters and thought the whole thing was sweet and the story was original. The Little Bookworm A discussion between me and Angela of Bookish Blather about Donut Days, for the Nerds Heart YA tournament: http://archthinking.blogspot.com/2010/06/nerds-heart-ya-review-donut-days.html Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com Emma Goiner's father informs her one night that the only universities her college fund will help support are those that her parents approve of. In other words, any secular school is OUT. Both of Emma's parents are pastors at Living Word Redeemer, so they expect Emma to be guided by their choices. But Emma knows they are disappointed in her. Since her baptism not so long ago, she's yet to speak in tongues. And she's inflamed that the church can be influenced by the wealthiest member of the congregation. So it's with these thoughts in her mind that she's determined to win the Paul Bunyan Press contest. The paper is holding a competition. Crispy Dream Donuts is opening a new store, and the paper is offering a college scholarship to the best story written about the opening. Emma isn't sure what angle she will take with her story, but she's going to camp out and interview people who are also camping there waiting for the celebration. It's during her time at Donut Camp that Emma learns more about herself than she ever expected. She encounters a Harley group that turns out to be the most unusual group of Christians she could imagine. And she meets a couple that have been camping for thirteen days, hoping that with the RV Crispy Dream will give a prize to the person who has logged the longest time at camp. And, though she struggles with herself, she winds up calling on Jake, a boy who had declared his love for her not so long ago, only to have her remain speechless and leave him hanging. During the time at Donut Camp, Emma's parents have to fight for their own dreams. Mr. O'Connor, the richest member of the church, has his own agenda, and when Emma's mom preaches that men and women are equal, it starts a cascade of events that soon envelopes everyone with their consequences. DONUT DAYS is a great, insightful novel by Ms. Zielin. It reads quickly and touches the heart. Though Emma grows up in a minister's home, the story is so much more than that. Yes, Emma tries to make her parents see that she's her own person and wants a world beyond what they have in mind for her. But it's also a story of fighting for what you believe in and achieving your own dreams. Emma is a strong character with her own insecurities - but a strong belief in herself and her dreams. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
During a camp-out promoting the opening of a donut shop in a small Minnesota town, sixteen-year-old Emma, an aspiring journalist, begins to connect an ongoing pollution investigation with the turmoil in the evangelical Christian church where her parents are pastors. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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